Unfaithful doesn't push the melodrama the way "Attraction" did, but it lingers in the mind as much.

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New York Daily NewsJami Bernard

The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.

That's what's intriguing about the film: Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma.

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Baltimore SunMichael Sragow

American movies are generally so skittish about sexuality that Adrian Lyne's appetite --and aptitude -- for exploring it in Unfaithful is a relief.

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Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea

Despite some fine, nuanced acting (it's Lane's movie, to be sure), Unfaithful doesn't get much deeper than a romance novel.

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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli

The good points about Unfaithful can't overcome the movie's eventual downward spiral.